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N62896, a Boeing 737-900ER
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N62896

Boeing 737-900ER

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesIllinois

N62896 is a Boeing 737-900ER, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2016. It has 222 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 27, 2016 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 23, 2016.

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Aircraft

Maker
Boeing
Model
737-900ER · all 737-900ERs and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Boeing 737 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
62768
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Cfm Intl CFM56-7B27E/F · 27,300 lb thrust
Seats
222
Year built
2016
Transponder code
A837A7 (octal 52033647)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
October 27, 2016
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 23, 2016
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01228614

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
United Airlines INC
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
233 S Wacker Dr
Chicago, IL 60606-7147

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 2

1970-08-31Consolidated Vultee BT-13A · Valid registration
—Cessna 172P · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Connections how N62896 links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
Live

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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N62896, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to United Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 27, 2016, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated October 23, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 62768 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N62896 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Consolidated Vultee BT-13A (serial 5301, cancelled August 31, 1970); Cessna 172P (serial 17275353, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N62896. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data